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For Dalal, 1948 was the year she was forced to walk hundreds of kilometres on foot with her mother and two brothers, Nimr and Naim to reach safety.

Jabalia camp is the largest of the eight refugee camps established in the Gaza Strip after the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionist forces in 1948.

"I do not want to lose my children here in Rafah. But I do not have any other place to go," a displaced Palestinian in Rafah told The New Arab.

"We are hostages of the Israeli wars," said Shirine Sheikh Ali, a displaced woman in the city of Rafah forced to flee for the eighth time since October.

The attack came after a heavy night of clashes with the armed Palestinian fighters, who tried to prevent the Israeli army from reaching the border crossing.

The Rafah border crossing is the only exit for more than 2.3 million Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave. 

Emad Abu Suwailem, a Rafah-based Palestinian resident, told The New Arab that he and others were informed by the army to evacuate their homes immediately.

Palestinians express concern over a new US aid pier in Gaza, fearing it could lead to US occupation amid Israel's ongoing offensive.

An image has emerged of Israeli soldiers dressing up in the abayas of displaced or dead Gazan women as they celebrate a Jewish holiday

Om Mohammed Abu Taha's entire ten-member family was wiped out by an airstrike from the Israeli army on their home while they were sleeping.